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  1. Re:Launch Stock on PS3 Assembly Starts End of September, Most High-End · · Score: 1

    it is actualy only 100k for japan at launch.

  2. Re:You know what else would have been something? on Sony Promises 1M PS3s This Year · · Score: 1

    What about Project H.A.M.M.E.R. and Disaster: Day of Crisis.

  3. Re:yay! on PSP to Get Classic Game Download Service · · Score: 1

    Orignal games: Lummines LocoRoco Sequals: Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Me and My Katamari Metal Gear Acid 1+2 Syphon Filter: The Dark Mirror WipEout Pure

  4. Re:Fundamental flaw? THE SE IS NOT IN ORBIT!! on NASA Still Wants Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    Try it hlding a tennis ball and then let go off it.

    From wikipedia

    The earth is 5.9742×(10 to the power of 24) kg.

    Assuming 1% mass is requied to slow down the earth then the mass would be

    5.9742 x( 10 to the power of 22) kg OR
    5.9742 x( 10 to the power of 19) tonns

  5. Re:Fundamental flaw? THE SE IS NOT IN ORBIT!! on NASA Still Wants Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    Spin around in your chair then put your arms out and then back in. What happens? Not sure about what effects but have a look at the mass of the earth compared with the counterweight.

  6. Re:Not an issue... on Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages? · · Score: 1

    As far as I know they both use (well the most efficent process for each) is the same. Reverse osmoise

  7. Re:Cut. Try another scene. on Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime · · Score: 1

    The other way of looking at that is this

    1.You make lawnmowers.
    2.I find a way of making the exact same lawnmower for free.
    3.I've copyed your product and you don't get compensation.

  8. Re:Cut. Try another scene. on Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Maybee they can't get ring-tones on their phones for free unlike 'free' CD's?

  9. Re:Why Wii? Even the PS2 is more fun! on PS3 Predicted to Lead Market Through 2011 · · Score: 1

    The Gamecube is more powerfull then the PS2 so the Wii must be more pwerfull then the PS2

  10. Re:Keep it simple on Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs? · · Score: 1

    I thought that the speed for internal HDD was about 200Mb/s

  11. Re:To be Online or Not, That is the Release Questi on The 27 Known Wii Launch Titles · · Score: 1

    Unfortnatly it is made by rare (so no Virtual Console :-()

  12. Re:Sony Bashing Needs To Stop on Sony Struggles To Define the PSP · · Score: 1

    (This is in japan) 150,000+ each week for the DS vs 30,000 (40,000 in tle last week) for the PSP

  13. Re:Translation on Everybody Loves the Wii · · Score: 1

    The PS2 was actualy less powerfull then the GC.

  14. Re:Great news on Common Sense Beats Out MN Games Law · · Score: 1

    The response to that is you can not then say 'that increasing CPU speeds has served to increase youth violence'

  15. Re:Great news on Common Sense Beats Out MN Games Law · · Score: 1

    And if you read the site you find he gets the graphs straight from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Statistics website (just adding the video game timeline)

  16. Re:The industry has been turned inside out on DS Sells 20 million, 17 Million More by March 2007 · · Score: 1

    No the xbox360 regualy outsells the gamecube now. (but not much more) http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=82 72&page=24

  17. Re:Region-free=good on DS Claims EU Dominance · · Score: 1

    (Off-topic) How do you get moonshell to paly movies (tried using their tools to get it to .dpg but it will not play saying the extension is not supported).

  18. Re:Crunching for their profit on Is Distributed Computing Being Distributed Badly? · · Score: 1

    actulay it is boinc boinc.berkley.edu. (seti@home was one of the first to move here)

  19. Re:Apply the figures to people playing at once on Game Console Energy Usage Comparison · · Score: 1

    Is there a solar panel that can produce anything like 5kWh/m2/day?

    At the 10% efficiency mark (Standed flat-panels are about 16% now I think. Although their is one product in develpment stage that is >30% and about grid-cost over it's lifespan http://www.greenandgoldenergy.com.au/) they would only be producing 500wh/m2/day. And you would use the 1st set of figuers 1298.63 km2 and 896,054.70 km2.

    If it weren't we'd being doing it already?

    The problem is the cost and load balancing (mainly during the evening and winter)

    I read somewhere that no solar cell has ever produced more energy than was put into making it in the first place (think of mining and processing raw materials, then manufacture and delivery with finite life span). I may be wrong but I've seen that idea a few times, maybe you know more? Maybe the tech needs to improve but it will all take time. It's a question of EROEI

    Most solar cells that I see are <3 years on EROEI

    From reading a bit I see solar EROEIs run from about 1 to 10 for certain designs. So that is a net energy gain. Or emergy as it seems to be called. However keeping the dust of these things in the outback or desert may require enormous water use that would have to be factored in too.

    That is a good point although couldn't you use a fan or alternativly you just leave the dust on reducing the efficency down

  20. Re:Apply the figures to people playing at once on Game Console Energy Usage Comparison · · Score: 1

    Solar could provide much more energy then was actualy needed

    Using http://www.greenandgoldenergy.com.au/images/Direct BeamAustraliaandNewZealand.GIF (5kWh/m2/day = 1825 kWh/m2/year

    From http://uic.com.au/nip37.htm (In 2003-04 Australia's power stations produced 237 billion kilowatt hours)

    237,000,000,000 / 1,825 = 129.86 km2 (1,000,000 m2 in 1 km2)

    assuming 10% efficency =1298.63 km2

    20-21 km wide circle , .0169 % total area of australia

    assuming 100% efficency =129.86 km2

    6-7 km wide circle , .00169 % total area of australia

    Using projected (http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/world.html) worldwide energy (all include electricity and ransport) use in 2015 is 162,068,301,805,239 kilowatt hours (per year)

    690 times the energy

    10% efficency = 11.660% the area of australia , 896,054.70km2 , 534km - 535km circle
    100% efficency = 1.166% the area of australia , 89,605.47km2 , 168km - 169km circle

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_land_area .png

    Or are are you talking about a diffrent problem then land area?

  21. Re:Amount of Waste Water? on New Nano Desalinization Method · · Score: 1

    waste water == wasted energy requied to pump the water

  22. Re:'Net Neutrality' is misleading on Net Neutrality or Not? · · Score: 1

    From my point of view they already are. Google buys badwith to get to you and you buy bandwith to get to Google.

  23. Re:America hates the masses, what a shock on Policy Wonk Castigates Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    This is actualy just America controling America's aprt of the Internet. No diffrent then China's firewall.

  24. Re:Li'l Bastard Solitaire Mod on FTC and Rockstar Settle Hot Coffee Dispute · · Score: 1

    My brother actualy got 2 cards that were the same.

  25. Re:I wonder... on Pricing For Retro Games on the Wii · · Score: 1

    Well (the us version) is copyrighted until 75 years after the creater has died so yes copyright probaly would still be attached